Sentence examples for village compounds from inspiring English sources

The villagers were small-scale gold miners who crushed gold-bearing rocks inside village compounds; the raw ore contained extremely high levels of lead, which had killed hundreds of children and left thousands more with lead poisoning.

I thought it was charming, the way they're going to make the old people live in mock 1950's style village compounds.

NATO says it was the Afghan army that called in the strike when its soldiers were under heavy fire from Taliban positions in two village compounds.

He, like many of the displaced people, complained that villagers found themselves trapped between Taliban fighters, who used the villages for cover to attack foreign forces, and NATO and American forces, which would often call in airstrikes on village compounds where civilians were living.

Asked by Colonel Nance whether he had poured kerosene on some of his victims and set them on fire as the charges against him specified, Sergeant Bales said he remembered seeing a kerosene lamp in one of the village compounds, and later found matches in his pocket.

The isolates were from 31 out of 34 village compounds.

A military spokesman in Afghanistan told The Associated Press that the bombing had been prompted by antiaircraft fire from a village compound where a wedding was taking place, possibly explaining the casualties.

Just like the nippy, milky-white dawn that lay over our village compound, brightened up with a fierce sun as the story, too, got hotter, so with a bit of luck and even more vigilance might September 27 1988 turn out to be a glistening day, full of light and hope, for honest sport.

A trench within the village compound also contained more adult skeletons than any of the other pits, suggesting that villagers were selectively hunting larger animals, and treating them like protein-rich snacks, according to one of the researchers.

The women's ID is built from the codes of the region, village, compound and WRA number; the latter number is a running number within the compound and is assigned to a woman when first registered.

For each round and in each village, 30 compounds were randomly selected using the GPS coordinates.